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Telempath by Spider Robinson
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Telempath (edition 2001)

by Spider Robinson

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Telempath
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Title:Telempath
Authors:Spider Robinson
Info:Baen (2001), Mass Market Paperback, 288 pages
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Robinson always makes sci-fi / fantasy real. Bless him. I like all his books for different reasons, but I suppose the most important is that he always surprises me. ( )
  dbsovereign | Jan 26, 2016 |
One of Spider's earlier works, and one of my favorites. I first read it when the first fourth of the book was published in Analog (called "By Any Other Name"), and was happy to see he'd extended it, fleshed it out, and continued it.

It's an interesting concept; the idea that there are beings who've been on the planet with us, all along, and that are somehow invisible (and not in possession of corporeal bodies). It's not exactly a spirit world, but it's truly a tale of survival. ( )
  Lyndatrue | Dec 10, 2013 |
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  romsfuulynn | Apr 28, 2013 |
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CHARLES and EVELYN
for the heredity and environment,

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JEANNE and LUANNA
for the patience, and

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BEARDEN BULLDOGS
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The novel, Robinson's first, is an expansion of his Hugo Award-winning novella "By Any Other Name."

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NOT WITH A BANG OR A WHIMPER

...but with a wail of outraged dispair.
That was how it ended.

For those infected with Caron's Syndrome, virtually every artifact of technological society carries an odor that is utterly maddening.
When the strange, artificial plague arrived, all over the world people exploded form their cities and towns, killing anything and anyone that impeded their mad stampeded for air untainted by technology.

When it was over not one in a hundred had survived. And that was only the beginning...
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His name is Isham Stone. He is a twenty-year-old black man, the second-best assassin in the world. He is many miles from home, half-dead, his left arm is gangrenous, and he possesses - like everyone else - a sense of smell a thousand times better than a wolf's. Ahead of him, in the stinking ruins of a great city, hides the greatest killer of all time. Wendell Morgan Carlson. All Isham has to do is stay alive long enough to find Carlson and kill him.
But Carlson is guarded by ghosts.

They rode the winds when Earth was a bubbling rock. They were a mighty civilization before the first amphibians were hatched. they shared thew world with men for a half a million years before either side became aware of the other - and for centuries thereafter we refused to believe they truly existed .

In our arrogance we assumed that life was an exclusive property of solids and liquids...

Now they have declared war on us, and our race is nearly annihilated. Thanks to the man Isham has come to kill...
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